For cases when I have need to top off the radiator, I have a siphon set up
to a coolant through the hole for the bleed screw.

John Lauterbach
'84 DL

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCulley <raven@HALCYON.COM>
To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM <vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: Radiator bleed screws

>At 07:30 PM 10/16/98 -0700, Earl Smith wrote:
>>The Hayes manual refers to a bleed screw on the rad, over which one can
put
>>a piece of tubing to direct the flow into a container.  This would sure
cut
>>down on a lot of the mess and make it possible to salvage antifreeze when
>>bleeding a system that has recently been refilled.  I heard this type of
>>bleed screw is required in California.  Can anyone sell me one?
>>
>>Earl from Sunny Sooke
>>84 ex-California Vanagon
>>
>If you have an 84 Vanagon (CA or Federal) you already have the bleed screw.
>I don't see how a piece of tubing would be all that helpful though. A
bucket
>does the trick for me.
>
>MM